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Hacker News (Feb 2026)
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Trump admin is pulling supercomputers out of key weather and climate center
13 points • comment • feb 14, 2026
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FDA refuses to review Moderna's application for mRNA flu vaccine
13 points • comment • feb 10, 2026
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Elevated error rates for ChatGPT users – OpenAI Status
13 points • comment • feb 03, 2026
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The Final Bottleneck
13 points • comment • feb 13, 2026
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Tensions between The Pentagon and AI giant Anthropic reach a boiling point
13 points • comment • feb 20, 2026
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Housman's Introductory Lecture (1892)
13 points • comment • feb 02, 2026
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Ask HN: Who is firing? (February 2026)
13 points • comment • feb 02, 2026
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The Nature of the Beast
13 points • comment • feb 08, 2026
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Freedom.gov: US State Department Plans VPN Portal for Europe
13 points • comment • feb 19, 2026
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Ow My Foot – Error Handling Across C, Go, Rust, and Google's Absl
13 points • comment • feb 28, 2026
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San Francisco's pro-billionaire march draws dozens
13 points • comment • feb 08, 2026
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AI is destroying open source, and it's not even good yet [video]
13 points • comment • feb 16, 2026
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This behavior can be a turning point for families caring for a dementia patient
13 points • comment • feb 17, 2026
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Tech people keep falling for the same scam
13 points • comment • feb 27, 2026
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So Long to Cheap Books You Could Fit in Your Pocket
13 points • comment • feb 06, 2026
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Unicode's confusables.txt and NFKC normalization disagree on 31 characters
13 points • comment • feb 22, 2026
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A War Foretold
13 points • comment • feb 27, 2026
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Even the Mars Rover Uses Zip Ties (2021)
13 points • comment • feb 24, 2026
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Minnesota court justice quietly negotiated deal over ICE enforcement in courts
13 points • comment • feb 22, 2026
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Many people have no mental imagery. What's going on in their brains?
13 points • comment • feb 04, 2026
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Scientists observe a 300M-year-old brain rhythm in several animal species
13 points • comment • feb 15, 2026
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Cloudflare Issues
13 points • comment • feb 20, 2026
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Iran reels as more than 80 children reportedly killed in school bombing
13 points • comment • feb 28, 2026
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Phil Spencer Leaves Xbox
13 points • comment • feb 22, 2026
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Top non-ad google result for "polymarket" in Australia is a crypto scam
13 points • comment • feb 16, 2026
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Does JIT Go Brrr?
12 points • comment • feb 01, 2026
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Lawsuit Challenges National Park Service Ban on Cash Payments
12 points • comment • feb 03, 2026
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Zerobrew is a Rust-based, 5-20x faster drop-in Homebrew alternative
12 points • comment • feb 11, 2026
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Fedify 2.0.0: Modular architecture, debug dashboard, and relay support
12 points • comment • feb 22, 2026
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nanochat can now train GPT-2 grade LLM for –$73 (3 hours on single 8XH100 node)
12 points • comment • feb 01, 2026
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Everything you need to know about lasers in one photo
12 points • comment • feb 08, 2026
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I Quit My Job at OpenAI
12 points • comment • feb 11, 2026
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Marc Andreessen Bet Big on Trump. It's Paying Off for Silicon Valley
12 points • comment • feb 01, 2026
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Are the Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics Beginning to Dissolve?
12 points • comment • feb 13, 2026
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Ask HN: Who Is Using XMPP?
12 points • comment • feb 25, 2026
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Nature: The political effects of X's feed algorithm
12 points • comment • feb 18, 2026
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Is AI Making Us Dumb?
12 points • comment • feb 26, 2026
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Workspace Studio- Automate your work with Gemini
12 points • comment • feb 04, 2026
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Reef: Paste bash into fish. It just works
12 points • comment • feb 10, 2026
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Show HN: Bashtorio – Factorio-Like in the Browser Backed by a Linux VM
12 points • comment • feb 17, 2026
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Valve wins patent troll lawsuit against Rothschild
12 points • comment • feb 19, 2026
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Does AI have human-level intelligence? The evidence is clear
12 points • comment • feb 05, 2026
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How I Experience the Web Today
12 points • comment • feb 03, 2026
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No one wants to admit the real reason corporations are laying off thousands
12 points • comment • feb 10, 2026
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Linux kernel 7.0 abandons the 28-year-old Intel 440BX chipset
12 points • comment • feb 15, 2026
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Map Shows 21 States Where Deaths Now Outnumber Births (2025)
12 points • comment • feb 04, 2026
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Taiwan rejects possibility of transferring 40% of semiconductor capacity to US
12 points • comment • feb 09, 2026
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Show HN: Axiomeer – An open marketplace for AI agents
12 points • comment • feb 03, 2026
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Escaping Misconfigured VSCode Extensions (2023)
12 points • comment • feb 20, 2026
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Show HN: Clawntown – An Evolving Crustacean Island
12 points • comment • feb 15, 2026
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The Slow Death of the Power User
12 points • comment • feb 25, 2026
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Editor of UploadVR on why he was fired
12 points • comment • feb 02, 2026
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If AI writes most of the code, understanding codebases becomes the bottleneck
12 points • comment • feb 16, 2026
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Honey bees navigate more precisely than previously thought
12 points • comment • feb 18, 2026
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How to Be a Class Act
12 points • comment • feb 08, 2026
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Spotify: Our best developers haven't written a single line of code since Dec
12 points • comment • feb 12, 2026
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The Government Just Made It Harder to See What Spy Tech It Buys
12 points • comment • feb 26, 2026
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Tesla sues California DMV to reverse 'false advertising' ruling on self-driving
12 points • comment • feb 23, 2026
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Symplex, an open-source protocol semantic negotiation between distributed agents
12 points • comment • feb 22, 2026
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MCPs are dead - CLIs won
12 points • comment • feb 22, 2026
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The Appeal and Reality of Recycling LoRAs with Adaptive Merging
12 points • comment • feb 25, 2026
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Canadian Province New Brunswick to Quit Using Elon Musk's X
12 points • comment • feb 08, 2026
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Sam Altman felt "useless" next to Codex
12 points • comment • feb 03, 2026
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I don't need AI to build me a new app. I need it to make Jira bearable
12 points • comment • feb 26, 2026
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The Remote-Work Dream Isn't Dead, but It's Slipping Away
12 points • comment • feb 26, 2026
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The Claude C Compiler: What It Reveals About the Future of Software
12 points • comment • feb 19, 2026
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They Fought for the CIA in Afghanistan. In America, They're Living in Fear
12 points • comment • feb 24, 2026
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Richard F. Burton: On the English adventurer and writer
12 points • comment • feb 04, 2026
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How the FBI might have gotten inaccessible camera footage from house
12 points • comment • feb 12, 2026
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AsmBB is a fast and lightweight web forum engine written in Assembly
12 points • comment • feb 09, 2026
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ICE tripled its reliance on Microsoft in last six months, leaked files reveal
12 points • comment • feb 18, 2026
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Key US infectious-diseases centre to drop pandemic preparation
12 points • comment • feb 13, 2026
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Show HN: Winslop – De-Slop Windows
12 points • comment • feb 21, 2026
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Curl Security Moves Again
12 points • comment • feb 25, 2026
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We urgently need a federal law forbidding AI from impersonating humans
12 points • comment • feb 14, 2026
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Attention is all you need to bankrupt a university
12 points • comment • feb 22, 2026
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Show HN: Fieldnotes
12 points • comment • feb 15, 2026
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A Collection of Awesome Nostr Projects
12 points • comment • feb 01, 2026
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Trying Out Thunderbird Appointment While I Patiently Wait for an Invite
12 points • comment • feb 09, 2026
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Richard Dawkins met Epstein despite knowing of conviction
12 points • comment • feb 13, 2026
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SE Radio 708: Jens Gustedt on C in 2026
12 points • comment • feb 20, 2026
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Fintech CEO and Forbes 30 Under 30 alum has been charged for alleged fraud
12 points • comment • feb 03, 2026
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Read Locks Are Not Your Friends
12 points • comment • feb 23, 2026
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OpenAI Executive Who Opposed 'Adult Mode' Fired for Sexual Discrimination
12 points • comment • feb 11, 2026
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The Ur-"Conspiracy": History of a Pseudoconcept
12 points • comment • feb 23, 2026
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CIA World Factbook Ends Publication After 6 Decades
12 points • comment • feb 06, 2026
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36 Years in Making, GNU's Own Kernel Project Hurd Is Anything but Dead
12 points • comment • feb 04, 2026
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What happens in early kernel boot on Apple Silicon?
12 points • comment • feb 03, 2026
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Paper Plotter
12 points • comment • feb 15, 2026
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Getting Global Age Assurance Right: What We Got Wrong and What's Changing
12 points • comment • feb 24, 2026
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Netflix Measures Dialogue Intelligibility
12 points • comment • feb 13, 2026
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The mystery of the mole playing rough (2019) [video]
12 points • comment • feb 06, 2026
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Giant barocaloric cooling effect offers a new route to refrigeration
12 points • comment • feb 17, 2026
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Federal statement on Jeffrey Epstein's death dated day before he was found dead
12 points • comment • feb 08, 2026
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The SaaSpocalypse – The week AI killed software
12 points • comment • feb 10, 2026
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Sam Altman would like remind you that humans use a lot of energy, too
12 points • comment • feb 22, 2026
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Collapse OS – Why Forth?
12 points • comment • feb 06, 2026
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Anthropic Claude Max $200/mo: They claim 99% uptime, I calculated 84% Loss: $780
12 points • comment • feb 04, 2026
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Claude just gave me access to another user's legal documents
12 points • comment • feb 19, 2026
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Incarcerated activists from Oscar-nominated documentary sent to solitary
12 points • comment • feb 06, 2026